Author: Steven Sahiounie

Australia’s pharmaceutical body has granted Moderna’s Covid vaccine conditional approval for use in the country in a bid to boost inoculation rates, with the first million doses set to arrive in September. On Monday, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Moderna’s Covid vaccine has been added to the country’s list of approved medicines. Australia has begun the rollout of the biotech firm’s jab to increase inoculation coverage across the country. “We have more doctors, we have more nurses, we have more pharmacists, we have more jabs in arms and now 10 million Moderna to add this year,” the prime minister said,…

The United Nations has warned there is increasing evidence that climate change is already delivering extreme weather conditions across the world. and that many changes might be irreversible for centuries or even millennia. On Monday, the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a bombshell report on climate change, urging the immediate cessation of fossil fuel burning. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the report’s findings as a “code red for humanity.” “This report must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels, before they destroy our planet,” Guterres said in a statement, adding that “the alarm bells are deafening.” The UN dossier draws…

More than 500 anti-Semitic incidents have been linked to the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany, during which Jews were blamed for both the virus and the lockdowns, a report by a watchdog group shows. The results of the study by the Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Antisemitism (RIAS) were reported by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The watchdog recorded 561 pandemic-related anti-Semitic incidents across Germany between March 2020 and March 2021. The majority of them (60%) occurred during public protests, during which Jews were blamed for the coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns. In other instances, Jews described being…

Heavy rain had already cost 250 million yuan ($38.57 million) in economic losses in Sichuan, China’s southwest, according to Chinese state broadcaster CCTV on Saturday night. Floods have affected about 121,600 people in six cities across the province, according to the CCTV. In addition, 45 houses were destroyed, and 118 houses were badly damaged. China is routinely hit by heavy rainfall in the summer. Moreover, severe storms struck central China’s Henan Province last month, with the province capital, Zhengzhou, receiving the equivalent of a year’s worth of rain in only three days.

The distillation of water using solar energy is one of the most common and easy methods used today. UrFU scientists collaborated with Iraqi colleagues to create a hybrid technique that uses a spinning hollow cylinder and a solar collector to improve evaporation efficiency within a solar distiller. The new technology will reduce desalination costs and quadruple the output capacity. The method uses solar energy to distill water, possibly rendering clean water for a big part of the globe suffering from water shortages – especially in the Middle East and Africa, countries with high solar energy potential, and water shortage. It…

The United States dollar rallied to a four-month high against the euro and reached its peak in two weeks against the yen. The USD rose to $1.1742 against the EU’s euro, continuing its 0.6% gain last Friday. This comes along with a strong US employment summary report, which stoked bets that a reduction in asset purchases could start this year and higher interest rates could follow in early 2022. The employment situation summary report showed Friday that jobs increased by 943,000 in July, in comparison with the 370,000 projected by analysts in a Reuters survey. Ken Cheung of Mizuho Bank…

The Israeli occupation forces continued Sunday their assaults on Palestinians in occupied Jerusalem, where the IOF assaulted several Palestinians and arrested three of them at Damascus Gate. Videos taken at the site show Israeli occupation soldiers brutally assaulting several Palestinians and threatening those attempting to defend them with their weapons. Scores of IOF-protected settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque from Morocco Gate, who then carried out provocative tours in its courtyards and performed Talmudic rituals and prayers. Near the entrance, an Israeli settler was seen trying to uproot a tree. He then gave up and headed towards Al-Aqsa to storm the holy…

Israeli media gathered to discuss the speech of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, as soon as it concluded yesterday evening. Haaretz quoted Sayyed Nasrallah declaring “despite Lebanon’s dire economic and political situation, Hezbollah will not hesitate to take action against ‘Israel’.” Channel 12 also reported that “Amid the tension in the north, Nasrallah threatens: every air attack on Lebanese soil will be responded to.” The channel also quoted the former chief of the Israeli Military Intelligence Division, Amos Yadlin, saying, “Nasrallah is trying to challenge our flights in Lebanon.” In his speech on Saturday, Sayyed Nasrallah clarified, “Our response yesterday is linked…

Hamas Political Bureau Chief Ismail Haniyeh, and his accompanying delegation in Tehran, welcomed members of the “Dawa and Reform Group”, led by its secretary-general Abdulrahman Birani. Haniyeh reviewed with the group new developments on the Palestinian scene, outcomes of “battle of Saif al-Quds”, and the “role of the nation, its people, and its intellectual and political elites, in supporting the Palestinian people, in the face of the Zionist occupation and its arbitrary measures against the Palestinian people, especially in the city of Jerusalem and its suburbs, and the occupation’s attempts to desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque.” Haniyeh also spoke about “the danger…

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune spoke during an interview set to be televised today at 11 PM occupied Jerusalem time. Tebboune said those who are attempting to harm the Algerian army aim to strike Algeria’s stability. “The army is the backbone of the state,” Tebboune added. The president’s words revolved around the importance of the Algerian army and its pivotal role in political and constitutional life, where he said, “The army is the guarantor of the constitution.” Socially, Tebboune asserted that the unemployment benefits would be increased in Algeria. Apropos the health sector, especially that it is facing many difficulties in light…